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WALOP-South: a four camera one shot imaging polarimeter for the PASIPHAE survey. Paper III -- PSF modelling
Indrajit Paul, Kishan Deka, Tuhin Ghosh +22
The two WALOP instruments, built for the PASIPHAE survey, will measure the linear polarization of large numbers of stars in the Galactic polar regions in the SDSS- band. They ar…
3D Magnetic Field Vectors in Space: Bubbles, Clouds, and Filaments
Mehrnoosh Tahani, Anna Ordog, Jennifer West +3
Magnetic fields play important roles in the star-formation process across different spatial scales. The interplay between magnetic field strength (a key component of the interstell…
Small-scale Magnetic Fields in the Milky Way and Nearby Galaxies
Yik Ki Ma, Amit Seta, Aritra Basu +13
Magnetic fields in galaxies span decades in physical scale, from the coherent magnetic fields on galactic scales (> kpc) to the random magnetic fields from 100 pc to the resistive…
SIMPLIFI-Study of Interstellar Magnetic Polarization: A Legacy Investigation of Filaments. II. Enhancement of grain alignment near embedded protostars in the DR21 Ridge
S. Kumar, T. G. S. Pillai, G. V. Panopoulou +10
Thermal dust continuum polarimetry is a powerful indirect probe of magnetic field geometry in dense molecular clouds while at the same time providing information on the alignment o…
Evidence for cloud-to-cloud variations in the ratio of polarized thermal dust emission to starlight polarization
Nidhi Mehandiratta, Georgia V. Panopoulou, Eirik Gjerløw +12
The correlation between optical starlight polarization and polarized thermal dust emission can be used to infer intrinsic dust properties. This correlation is quantified by the rat…
Wide Area Linear Optical Polarimeter Control Software
John A. Kypriotakis, Bhushan Joshi, Dmitry Blinov +19
The WALOPControl software is designed to facilitate comprehensive control and operation of the WALOP (Wide Area Linear Optical Polarimeter) polarimeters, ensuring safe and concurre…
IXPE Observations of the Blazar Mrk 501 in 2022: A Multiwavelength View
L. Lisalda, E. Gau, H. Krawczynski +157
The blazar Markarian 501 (Mrk 501) was observed on three occasions over a 4-month period between 2022 March and 2022 July with the Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE). In thi…
Analyzing Stellar and Interstellar Contributions to Polarization: Modeling Approaches for Hot Stars
R Ignace, A G Fullard, G V Panopoulou +3
Linear polarimetry of unresolved stars is a powerful method for discerning or constraining the geometry of a source and its environment, since spherical sources produce no net pola…
The WALOP-North Instrument I: Optical Design, Filter Design, Calibration
John A. Kypriotakis, Siddharth Maharana, Ramya M. Anche +18
The Wide Area Linear Optical Polarimeter North (WALOP-North) is an optical polarimeter designed for the needs of the PASIPHAE survey. It will be installed on the 1.3m telescope at…
Systems design, assembly, integration and lab testing of WALOP-South Polarimeter
Siddharth Maharana, A. N. Ramaprakash, Chaitanya Rajarshi +28
Wide-Area Linear Optical Polarimeter (WALOP)-South is the first wide-field and survey-capacity polarimeter in the optical wavelengths. On schedule for commissioning in 2024, it wil…
The magnetic field of the Radcliffe Wave: starlight polarization at nearest approach to the Sun
G. V. Panopoulou, C. Zucker, D. Clemens +6
We investigate the geometry of the magnetic field towards the Radcliffe Wave, a coherent 3-kpc-long part of the nearby Local Arm recently discovered via three-dimensional dust mapp…
The first degree-scale starlight-polarization-based tomography map of the magnetized interstellar medium
V. Pelgrims, N. Mandarakas, R. Skalidis +21
We present the first degree-scale tomography map of the dusty magnetized interstellar medium (ISM) from stellar polarimetry and distance measurements. We used the RoboPol polarimet…
Zero-polarization candidate regions for calibration of wide-field optical polarimeters
N. Mandarakas, G. V. Panopoulou, V. Pelgrims +14
Context. Calibration of optical polarimeters relies on the use of stars with negligible polarization (unpolarized standard stars) for determining the instrumental polarization zero…
Observations of Low and Intermediate Spectral Peak Blazars with the Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer
Herman L. Marshall, Ioannis Liodakis, Alan P. Marscher +145
We present X-ray polarimetry observations from the Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) of three low spectral peak and one intermediate spectral peak blazars, namely 3C 273, 3…
Synchrotron Signatures of Cosmic Ray Transport Physics in Galaxies
Sam B. Ponnada, Iryna S. Butsky, Raphael Skalidis +7
Cosmic rays (CRs) may drive outflows and alter the phase structure of the circumgalactic medium, with potentially important implications on galaxy formation. However, these effects…
Synchrotron Emission on FIRE: Equipartition Estimators of Magnetic Fields in Simulated Galaxies with Spectrally-Resolved Cosmic Rays
Sam B. Ponnada, Georgia V. Panopoulou, Iryna S. Butsky +7
Synchrotron emission is one of few observable tracers of galactic magnetic fields (\textbf{B}) and cosmic rays (CRs). Much of our understanding of \textbf{B} in galaxies comes from…
The RoboPol sample of optical polarimetric standards
D. Blinov, S. Maharana, F. Bouzelou +34
Optical polarimeters are typically calibrated using measurements of stars with known and stable polarization parameters. However, there is a lack of such stars available across the…
A compilation of optical starlight polarization catalogs
G. V. Panopoulou, L. Markopoulioti, F. Bouzelou +7
Polarimetry of stars at optical and near-infrared wavelengths is an invaluable tool for tracing interstellar dust and magnetic fields. Recent studies have demonstrated the power of…
IRAS 00450+7401 and the mid-infrared fade/burst cycle of R Coronae Borealis-type stars
William A. Burris, Carl Melis, Allen W. Shafter +3
We present optical and infrared imaging and spectroscopy of the R Coronae Borealis-type (R Cor Bor) star IRAS 00450+7401. Optical spectra further confirm its classification as a co…
Bright-Moon Sky as a Wide-Field Linear Polarimetric Flat Source for Calibration
S. Maharana, S. Kiehlmann, D. Blinov +20
Next-generation wide-field optical polarimeters like the Wide-Area Linear Optical Polarimeters (WALOPs) have a field of view (FoV) of tens of arcminutes. For efficient and accurate…
CO enhancement by magnetohydrodynamic waves; Striations in the Polaris Flare
R. Skalidis, K. Gkimisi, K. Tassis +4
The formation of molecular gas in interstellar clouds is a slow process, but is enhanced by gas compression. Magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) waves create compressed quasiperiodic linear…
X-ray Polarization Observations of BL Lacertae
Riccardo Middei, Ioannis Liodakis, Matteo Perri +143
Blazars are a class of jet-dominated active galactic nuclei with a typical double-humped spectral energy distribution. It is of common consensus the Synchrotron emission to be resp…
Polarized Blazar X-rays imply particle acceleration in shocks
Ioannis Liodakis, Alan P. Marscher, Iván Agudo +125
Most of the light from blazars, active galactic nuclei with jets of magnetized plasma that point nearly along the line of sight, is produced by high-energy particles, up to $\sim 1…
WALOP-South: A Four-Camera One-Shot Imaging Polarimeter for PASIPHAE Survey. Paper II -- Polarimetric Modelling and Calibration
Siddharth Maharana, Ramya M. Anche, A. N. Ramaprakash +22
The Wide-Area Linear Optical Polarimeter (WALOP)-South instrument is an upcoming wide-field and high-accuracy optical polarimeter to be used as a survey instrument for carrying out…